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June 2015

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58 / the tasting panel / june 2015
BEHIND THE
SCENES WITH
FRED DAME, MS
Fred Dame: Shelley, every time I walk into A16 I remember meeting you when you
were working at Fleur de Lys with Hubert Keller. So where's the steak frites?
Shelley Lindgren: It's your fault. I got the Italian bug at the Court of Master Sommeliers
training programs and made a trip to Italy. I fell in love with the wines, the food, the regions
and the stories! I then went to cooking school at Tante Marie and ended up teaching there.
When we opened, we decided to focus on pizza and wine. We went to Naples, where pizza is
king, and we were hooked.
I think that pizza is a religion in Naples.
You're right—they even have a patron saint!
Shelley Lindgren at A16 in
San Francisco. Lindgren
won the 2015 James Beard
Award for Outstanding
Wine Program.
A Conversation with
Shelley Lindgren
PROPIETOR AND WINE DIRECTOR, A16, SAN FRANCISCO
photos by Hardy Wilson